California - Northern

[ronott1]

Ohh question. When the new coop is done and we move the chickens into it- they are going to stress and stop laying aren't they? If they do, does this sort of thing generally last days, weeks or months?

Maybe. When I took my Barred Plymouth Rocks home, I made a quarantine pen for them out of plastic fencing. One of them laid an egg the next day in the pen!

They are going on 2 years old and have rarely stopped laying ever! Even through molting.

To be more serious, the most they will stop will be 2 weeks.

This is what I would do. Move them in at night and keep them locked up in the new pen for three nights. Of course make sure you have fake eggs(golf balls) in the nest boxes for them. Also, if it is dark install a light.

I hope it all goes well!

 

[JerseyGiantfolk]

Hasn't quite reached us yet but it should be here very soon. eek!

*...preparing to worm chickens after this wet week...*

 

[ronott1]

Quote: A lot of people suggest worming with the season changes, so maybe wait until Dec 21st?

Jeffers sells a generic Ivermectin for real cheap.

 

[zooweemama]

Maybe. When I took my Barred Plymouth Rocks home, I made a quarantine pen for them out of plastic fencing. One of them laid an egg the next day in the pen!

They are going on 2 years old and have rarely stopped laying ever! Even through molting.

To be more serious, the most they will stop will be 2 weeks.

This is what I would do. Move them in at night and keep them locked up in the new pen for three nights. Of course make sure you have fake eggs(golf balls) in the nest boxes for them. Also, if it is dark install a light.

I hope it all goes well!

Thank you! It just occurred to me today that this might happen. Their health, safety and well-being is more important to me so I don't mind but it would be nice to know what could happen so I am not surprised. Or get worried if weeks pass and no one lays. Since this is my first time, as you can all tell, I tend to panic a little bit about my chickens. LOL Thank you so much! Maybe I should bet some Barred Rocks- dang! Sound like egg machines! haha

 

[Happy Chooks]

I have one silly rooster that will crow at 2:00 in the morning . We are close to neighbors but no one has complained... Wish he wasnt one of the Roosters I want to keep . For a while i was blaming the early crowing on the skylight in the coop but he will crow when it is totally dark..

It's been a full moon lately, maybe that's why?

Greetings from Montague (6 miles south of the Or border), I didn't know the No Ca group existed until ronott1 told me,
how wonderful.

The winds has been terrible, but if you could just get all the birds to turn with their vents to the wind, you could do a
quick inspection. We have been registering gusts at the airport to 43 knts. It only took 1 gust and a couple of 3 month
old Orps rolling across the ground for all the babies to go to the coop. The older birds haven't done much but poke their
heads out. Argh...


Len

Welcome!

Ohh question. When the new coop is done and we move the chickens into it- they are going to stress and stop laying aren't they? If they do, does this sort of thing generally last days, weeks or months?

Usually a couple days to a week. Stockpile the eggs now while you can.

Quote: Already wormed mine. I'm down to 2-3 eggs a day, so it was perfect timing. Sunday I can eat my eggs again.

 

[ronott1]

Guess what was delivered to me today?

The 2013 BYC Calendar! Amy Beth's picture is used for the month of June!

Drop Dead Gorgeous are the two EEs!

 

[ronott1]

Guess what was delivered to me today?

The 2013 BYC Calendar! Amy Beth's picture is used for the month of June!

Drop Dead Gorgeous are the two EEs!

BYC was down so maybe the notifications stopped.

Back up now!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I took a Geology class at Shasta College that explained how run off works. The instructor used Shasta Lake as an example. The storms come in waves here. Usually three in a series. The first storm wets the soil. The Second storm wets it a bit more. By the third storm, the ground is saturated and will not hold any more water. If on a slope, the ground can start to move without roots and etc. to hold it up. Also, since the ground is saturated, more water will go into the streams and lakes even if the third storm drops less water.

You can see this happen if you watch the daily water levels in Shasta lake this week. The lake did not go up much after the first storm. It will go up a bit more with this one, but the one over Saturday to Sunday will really increase the lake level.

Amy, I am sorry you lost the rooster. No chicken dinner from that one!

Mike, The latches on your nest boxes are not just to protect the eggs. Raccoons can lift the lid, get into the coop and kill the chickens. Make sure they are locked each night! I am very certain you have raccoons near you. I say 4 dead raccoons on the freeway between Woodland and Redding on Thanks Giving Day.

darn I want a Daniel Boone style hat...

 

[Hangtown Farms]

A lot of people suggest worming with the season changes, so maybe wait until Dec 21st?

Jeffers sells a generic Ivermectin for real cheap.

or if your natural try pumpkins. something in the seeds paralyses the worms .
or pumpkins now worm them Dec. 21st?

 

[Hangtown Farms]

She hasn't had them but about a month. She took care of most of the crowing by enclosing more of the coop. The down side is it made them darker. She had them built with the hardware cloth and paid extra to have them built on a wooden platforms.

Here is a picture of how she set them up:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/690271/stellas-social-club/1500_50#post_9928781
Yeah, but with our red dirt, they wouldn't be white long.
Mine crow about 5:30, but in an enclosed coop, you don't hear it much. In the open ended coop, it's like having a bullhorn.

Like the bullhorn comparison. it would be like blowing in a horn with the wood sides and back lol